As I promised, here are Greg’s own words about his short adventure with incarceration. Written in 2006 for my parenting book, Handbook to Joy-Filled Parenting, Greg’s courage to make his story public has already helped parents rearing teens. I hope it will continue to help many–as we all grow in our journey of learning unconditional love. […]
Tactics of a Bully–Part Two
In my last blog I talked about a new book I’m working on which is will be finished in the future. We think the title will be Facing Narcissism in Ourselves and Others. I have taken one of Dr. Jim Wilder’s Munchie CDs and turned it into a book. The new book goes right along […]
Tactics of a Bully–Part One
Bullying is a hot topic these days; we even hear about it in the news. There are playground bullies, work-place bullies, and cyber bullies. Bullies are fear-filled and hurting people who take their fear and hurt out on others instead of dealing with themselves. These kinds of bullies are fairly obvious, but recently I’ve been […]
A Look at Grace
For several weeks I have been working on a new book that might not even have my name on it. I’m making a CD into a book because the CD helped me so much that I want to share it as a book. I like to underline and it’s a little difficult to underline a […]
Bears and Turtles and Relational Circuits
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to get triggered by corrections or disagreements? This is especially true if we grew up with toxic shame that sent messages that communicated, “You are bad.” Any hint from another person that sounds or feels like a toxic shame message and defenses will rise up. When that […]
Freedom From How Shame Shapes Us
Shame, along with sad, anger, fear, disgust and hopelessness, is one of the six negative emotions common to all people, joy being the positive one. But this shame is not destructive nor is it what we usually think of as shame. This shame means: “Someone is not glad to be with me right now” Babies are supposed to […]